Process of waterproofing and waterproofed material



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proofing building material and to a water-' prooiied material, My object is to improve and simplify the processes heretofore known in the prior art and to obtain a waterproofed' construction which has a high water-repellent veffect.

l have found by experiment that China wood oil (sometimes known as tung oil) or its metallic derivatives, commercially known as tung-oleates, are excellent waterproofing agents. These tung-oleates may be, and are, commercially formed with such metalsas iron, lead, magnesium, calcium, or aluminum, and they or the China wood oil itself may be applied to building materials to give the water-repellent properties, They may be painted on, dissolved in proper solvents and sprayed on, or, especially in the case of the striccos, mixed with the material during the process of manufacture, or as the material is mixed to make into blocks or tiles or to apply in the process of building.

0r in the case of China wood oil, it mayv even be absorbed by suitable media, such as lrieselguhr, and the dry product later mixed with the stucco material. lin the case of China wood oil itsel'l'being used, with some stucco materials, there seems to be a chemical reaction between the oil andthe bases formed in the stucco, but the formation of such, compounds is not essential to the success'ful'worlring of the process.

As an example of my waterproofing, I have used the following proportions: calcinedmagnesite, ground 18 parts; asbestos 3 parts, manganese tung-oleate in powdered Application died June 30, l920. serial No. 393,132? I form 2 parts; sand 77 parts. The whole may be mixed together and the mass then set with sufficient magnesum chloride solutionof 18 degrees Baum strength to produce a: mixture flowing freely under the trowel. This produces a magnesium oxychloride stucco variously known under this term or plastic magnesite and Sorel stone, mixed with the metallic derivative of China wood oil: Or, a still more strongly water-repellant mixture may be formed by substituting one part of China wood oil for two parts of manganese tung-oleate. It has been. found that when the Waterproofing agent, such as China wood oil or its derivatives, are applied merely to the exterior surface of the shaped material to be waterproofed, the surface is quite materially darkened. When, however, the waterproofing material is integrally mixed with a stony building material previous to its being shaped, so small a quantity can be 1 The process or preparing a magnesium oxychloride stucco, which consists in mixing with the stucco, previously to its being shaped, manganese tung-oleate.

2. A magnesium oxychloride stucco waterproofed throughout with manganese tungoleate.

, Signed at New. York, N. Y., this 29th day of June 1920. i

DONALD M., LIDDELL.

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